Pakistan Earthquake, A week on, A view from a British Pakistani, in the UK...

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1st Map:
This is an overview, showing the location of the earthquake epicentre, in relation to the country boundaries.

2nd Map:
This shows the towns, villages, hamlets, didentified and named in and around the epicentre. Approx 4000 place names.
(Source: Google Earth)

3rd Map:
This gives an idea of how mountainous the region is.
(Source: Google Earth)

(source: Google Earth)
The overlays provided for the images above are from the Kehole community BBS.. The earth images are from Google Earth.


The Scene in Pakistan is really bad.. Worse than what is being reported on the TV…
The story has lamost dropped off the radar, on mainstream british media..
Asian channels on SKY TV still covering it,, they are still running the telethons..

I think asian TV news channels should be sending reporters on the ground to give us the latest info...


for some latest photos from the area:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/earthquake

latest news blog site:
http://www.pakquake.com/


Biggest problem, is logistics to distribute relief and lack of surgeons and surgical euipment lack of tents and blankets, still need more….

If youre origin is from the affected areas, then I hope all your families are well..

Some blog stories I have read on the net that send shivers down my spine:
+ Not enough kaffan to bury the dead
+ One team of surgeons are doing about 100 operations a day with only a couple of hours sleep at night.
+ We have a new generation of disabled people, as so many amputations have been carried out..


The aftershocks still have not stopped… all we can do is pray...

Allah Hafiz,

-machinecode